mr. griffin is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you mr. werfel for being here. i have heard great thing about your reputation, and i hope that you will get to the bottom of this. i want to raise some specific questions of this report a path forward at the irs is a public report. in this town, as you know, you have been here awhile, and i've spend some time in the town. a republican report, whether it's intended to be or not is a political report. people are going to seize upon what is in that report, and there are going to statement like the one that you made, we have not found evidence of intentional wrong doing on behalf of our irs personnel. they are going to seize all statements like that. and they are going to hold it up and say, yeah, see that? no evidence. i was a staff investigator in the house. i have been a prosecutor. did you not know that by putting that in the statement you were communicating to the world, even though this is a -- this is a simply an update, you were communicating to the world from a political perspective that there is no evidence o